zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen
[t͡svaɪ̯ ˈfliːɡn̩ mɪt ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈklapə ˈʃlaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 38
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — mit einer Aktion zwei Dinge erledigen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t͡svaɪ̯ ˈfliːɡn̩ mɪt ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈklapə ˈʃlaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 38 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen is 38 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡svaɪ̯ ˈfliːɡn̩ mɪt ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈklapə ˈʃlaːɡn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mit einer Aktion zwei Dinge erledigen".
No misspelling variants are generated for zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen, spelled Z-W-E-I- -F-L-I-E-G-E-N- -M-I-T- -E-I-N-E-R- -K-L-A-P-P-E- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit einer Aktion zwei Dinge erledigen
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- The one correct German spelling is Z-W-E-I- -F-L-I-E-G-E-N- -M-I-T- -E-I-N-E-R- -K-L-A-P-P-E- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t͡svaɪ̯ ˈfliːɡn̩ mɪt ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈklapə ˈʃlaːɡn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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